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Thank you for being one of the few commenters on this thread who point out the HBD streak on that thread. The insistence that that is not reactionary has been a strong undercurrent…

That is a great summary, thank you.

I really, really wish I got a penny every time I get accused of wanting to censor conservatives simply because I criticized them.

Not sure if there's more mocking or calling out, HBD and otherwise. The forum's focus on HBD seems something worth critiquing extensively.

The thread wasn't banned off of reddit though, just his site and subreddit. So no such issues here. Otherwise I agree with worrying about the big platforms, though for I dont think…

Signal did a version of that with the help of aclu.

It's not that the author didn't get to chat about people's lunch on Facebook every morning. It's that the author wasn't invited to things he should have been invited to because to …

Considering they partnered with facebook, they don't quite see it that way, instead looking at it as a way to bring good e2e crypto to millions of people. It's a tradeoff.

It is more that without centralized servers, if that's what you mean, you have a lot of ux disadvantages.

Cooking the books with libor? What does cooking the books mean?

Sure, in theory... In the end you either educate the users if you can, or try to make the big platforms more accepting of this, or both. There is no perfect solution. Being an "ent…

The idea of tech-socialism is so dumb here, you would think the ad would have an opposite effect...

Privacy really isn't transactional, it's a ecological issue. There's no way for you to make that decision without (as a group) impacting others. A choice to not use Google or Faceb…

Is this sarcastic?

Oh, I was thinking about this upon typing my message for the first time, but then forgot it upon retyping (my browser was being erratic). Thanks for the note. At least parts of the…

Exactly this - it exists. It's just overblown, as states have forever recognized that they can use fear for conformity and submission. But we should be careful to not say it's fabr…

>People don't just don't care that much. Well, it's not easy to understand. At times they've cared enough to extract meaningful change, so we shouldn't assume that that will never …

It's not that they don't care, it's that they're conditioned to think it's too hopeless and complicated. The common people have the power, they only need to understand they do.

Well, there is evidence to the contrary, at least: the lack of success of the NSA mass spying programmes, with experts like Schneier repeatedly showing why such programmes cannot i…

To get that data, governments may need a bunch of things: the company being under their jurisdiction in some legally relevant sense, laws allowing for such requests (those may or m…

I believe there are two critical components of that that aren't simply natural result of the democratic nature of the internet, nor are necessary. First, WWW is relatively young, s…

I agree that Google is worse in most of the ways you noted. However, I would note that the choice of not using Facebook is a somewhat-arbitrary one, due to the incredibly strong ne…

I concur. Parent's post was interesting, but if we narrow down to datamining and surveillance, it has gotten a whole lot worse to a degree that is beyond appreciable.

Do you need the results to be personified? I use DDG / startpage to avoid it.